Easter Under the Magnolia Tree
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Magnolia Tree Easter 2011
Westwood, NJ
Notes: Easter afternoon under the magnolia tree just before the petals started to drop.
San Jeronimo Fort, Portobelo, Panama
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San Jeronimo Fort
Portobelo, Panama
Notes: Freehand panorama from 9 images.
Christmas Eve at the Corner of Westwood and Fairview Avenues
The Christmas lights strewn on the trees lining Westwood Avenue in downtown Westwood are simply elegant yet symmetrically impressive. Standing on the street and gazing a down the street across the 3 blocks of lights creates an illusion the lights stretch on forever into the infinite darkness. It may have been a brown Christmas but Christmas lights have a way of blinding you to surrounding circumstances and bringing the reason Christmas is important to mind, if only for a short while.
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Christmas Eve on Westwood Ave.
Westwood, NJ
Notes: First night panorama picture. Used a remote shutter to prevent camera shake during each of the more than 50 source images. The nadir cap picture was not used because I couldn’t hold the camera steady enough and I couldn’t blend out my shadow. So I emphasized my shadow and put a black cap at the bottom. The overall result was quite good, most of the pictures were clear and stitched cleanly.
Lunar Eclipse Pictures from Northern New Jersey
It was a beautifully clear night in Bergen County New Jersey and it would be such a waste not to share such a celestial sight. The first picture was taken about 2:15 AM EST and the second about 30 minutes later. Both were captured using a standard dSLR camera with 200mm lens and remote shutter.
Before the eclipse started there was enough light outside to easily move around and see the dials on the camera. By the time the second picture was taken the light was gone and it was almost pitch black. The moon was a dark red color as it passed into the Earth’s shadow.
Little Girl’s Point Beach 360 Panorama
A beautiful sunny day ahead and not a soul on the beach. Lake Superior is truly an inland ocean with it’s own beauty and magnificence that makes all the world’s oceans envious.
Little Girl’s Point Beach
Ironwood, MI
Notes: One of my earliest semi-successful 360 images. Focus was set to infinity which caused problems stitching pictures of the beach pebbles. The fine detail and variation of the beach made it difficult to stitch the nadir cap image. The water and the sky presented their own challenges due to lack of unique control points to stitch the images against. My shadow turned out to be a surprising artifact that I hadn’t planned on remaining in the final blend. Instead of trying to mask it I ended up emphasizing it.